Definitions for impious

impious im·pi·ous

Spelling: [im-pee-uh s, im-pahy-]
IPA: /ˈɪm pi əs, ɪmˈpaɪ-/

Impious is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in impious (iimopsu).

Definitions for impious

adjective

  1. not pious or religious; lacking reverence for God, religious practices, etc.; irreligious; ungodly.
  2. disrespectful.

Origin of impious

1565-75; Latin impius. See im-2, pious

Examples for impious

This is so impious and abominable that I can never forgive him for it .

And you can say that this place is a foul imposture; this holy image an impious fraud!

Not the smallest little detachment of these impious polizones.

I might have slain him to dissolve the impious bond, yet I obeyed what is written.

The Christians were disliked, not as superstitious, but as impious.

Error in speculative doctrine not impious - nor knowledge pious.

Do you not recollect that there was one idea which made the impious impious, and the pious pious?

It would be impious to strew our mother's bones along the way.

By the way, this article is not only impious and damnable, it's also almost certainly illegal to read or publish it in Gaza.

It seemed to me as if I had been heard, and that my impious prayers were about to be granted.

Word Value for impious
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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